Subject: Re: How to send mail *directly* to news group?

From: [email-masked]
Date: 27 Jan 1997 13:14:10 GMT

I think what this poster may have meant, was: is it possible to "email"
an article directly to a newsgroup, without "posting" thru a newsreader.

I'm kinda curious about this too.  I have a vague recollection of seeing
something like this before.  It inovlves an entry in the TO: field
of an email message like [email-masked].

Anybody have any info on this?

                                     TIA

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From: Rick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:28:55 -0700 (MST)

> Anybody have any info on this?

I have never heard of anything like what you are talking of in the TO:
field, but I do know that from pine I can post directly to a newsgroup. If
I use ^R to enRich the header it displays a field labeled "NEWSGRPS" and
when I type in the name of the newsgroup there it posts it for me.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:14:38 +0000 (GMT)

The trick of using ^R to display all the headers and then filling in the
"Newsgorpus:" header field tells Pine to use NNTP (a News style
connection) to port the article to a new server.  If the "To:" field is
also filled in then the message is e-mailed (using SMTP) to a mail server
somewhere.

It *is* possible to send Usenet News articles to newsgroups even if you
don't have access to a Usenet News server yourself.  And this _is_ done
using the "To:" field, not the "Newsgroups:" field.

The trick is to e-mail ("To:" field) the message to a Usenet News <-> Mail
gateway machine.  The "username" is derived from the newsgroup name.  In
particular, if memory serves, the usual thing is to convert a newsgroup
name of the form "alt.this.that" to "alt-this-that" (ie, change "." 
characters to "-"'s)

Thus to send a message to alt.this.that it could be e-mailed to

	[email-masked]

Unfortunately I can't recall the IP names of any such public access
News<->Mail gateways off the top of my head.  Can anyone else?

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Kong Sing Yeong <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:45:53 +0000

That would be through one of the e-mail to usenet gateways. It wouldn't be
"direct" (in my opinion) either.

Cheers

Sing Yeong